Pisidia, City of Sagalassus, AE Unit, Hermes & Mên (Rare Unpublished Type)

Includes glass top leatherette display box.

• Origin: Pisidia (in modern Turkey)
• Authority: City of Sagalassus, under the Roman Empire
• Date: c. 117 - 192 CE
• Denomination: AE (bronze) unit, name unknown
• Size: 16mm
• Type Number: Extremely rare type; not in standard references. A coin of the same type is published in Henry C. Lindgren's "Ancient Greek Bronze Coins from the Lindgren Collection" under "Lindgren III 716"
• Obverse: Diademed and draped bust of Hermes right, caduceus on shoulder
• Reverse: CAΓAΛAC - bust of Mên right, wearing Phrygian cap, crescent on shoulders.
• Notes: Dating this coin presents challenges. The obverse type depicting Hermes with his caduceus is widespread across Pisidia and appears in multiple periods. This smaller module seems to have been issued only during the Antonine era; however, all known examples from that time, regardless of city, portray Hermes bareheaded with the caduceus before him. Versions showing the caduceus over the shoulder occur on larger denominations beginning with Philip I, but none are known from Sagalassus, and all still feature a bareheaded Hermes. Given the coin’s size, an Antonine-era attribution appears most plausible, though it remains uncertain.

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